Fillmore East
The entrance to the Fillmore is now a bank branch.
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| Former names | Commodore Theater Village Theater |
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| Location | 105 Second Avenue at East 6th Street Manhattan, New York City |
| Type | Concert Hall |
| Genre(s) | Rock |
| Capacity | 2,654 |
| Opened | March 8, 1968 |
| Closed | June 27, 1971 |
Coordinates: 40°43′39″N 73°59′19″W / 40.7276°N 73.9886°W
Fillmore East was rock promoter Bill Graham's rock venue on Second Avenue near East 6th Street in the (at the time) Lower East Side neighborhood, now called the East Village neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan of New York City. It was open from March 8, 1968 to June 27, 1971 and featured some of the biggest acts in rock music at the time. The Fillmore East was a companion to Graham's Fillmore Auditorium, and its successor, the Fillmore West, in San Francisco, Graham's home base.
The theatre at 105 Second Avenue that became the Fillmore East was originally built as a Yiddish theater in 1925-26 – designed by Harrison Wiseman in the Medieval Revival style – at a time when the section of Second Avenue was known as the "Yiddish Theater District" and the "Jewish Rialto" because of the numerous theatres that catered to a Yiddish-speaking audience. Called the Commodore Theater, and independently operated, it eventually was taken over by Loews Inc. and became a movie theater, the Loews Commodore. It later became the Village Theatre. When Graham took over the theatre in 1967, it had fallen into disrepair. Despite the deceptively small marquee and façade, the theater had a capacity of almost 2,700.
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